I would consider the blog successful if it can further enable responsible entrepreneurship. My position papers on Enabling Entrepreneurship are here: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B4f-_OBQVCe_M3hxMGtydmV4bE0/edit
Between Aug 2012 and Feb 2013 I travelled; adopted two dogs; recovered from a slipped disc; pondered on how to broadly enable entrepreneurship; and neglected this blog. I hope to redress that. Look forward to working with you to further responsible entrepreneurship.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Testimony of Kauffman Foundation Senior Scholar before the U.S. Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation

While this has to do with the U.S., and while
Entrepreneurship has been growing in India, the solutions presented by Brian
Lindsey would not be out of place in India. India has in my opinion, benefited
from a latency (pent up demand for entrepreneurship caused by regulation) that has
encouraged entrepreneurs despite obstacles thrown at them. If this latency is
viewed as sufficiency of reform, that would be complacency and lead to a
situation that the U.S. is in now.

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About Me

I have long wanted to focus on entrepreneurship development and have taken the plunge.

My work experience was gained largely in Dow Chemical (10
years) and at J.P. Morgan (11 years) and covers the spectrum as I have worked
on the buy and sell sides; in lines of business and in support functions; and
(though based in Hong Kong) in most of the Asia Pacific countries.

My interest in entrepreneurship is specifically in the "unmet middle" - because they tend to be neglected and I believe in people having the right to succeed so long as they do so in an ethical and socially responsible manner. I believe that entrepreneurs often have a
resource (capital, human and materials) divide that adds both friction and
cost. I hope to devote the rest of my useful life to bridging that divide.

RECENT PAST. I joined the Indian School of Business' Wadhwani Center for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED) at end-June 2011. I authored a set of 8 position papers to set a framework for the broad-based development of entrepreneurship while at the center. I resigned in April 2012 in protest of the many shortcomings of the center.

I spent the following two years in Hyderabad mentoring entrepreneurs and sharing my views on entrepreneurship (public speaking + working with entrepreneurship groups) on a pro-bono basis.

I moved back to Hong Kong in April 2014 to be with my wife and hope to continue my work on Entrepreneurship but to also involve myself in issues that will result in in "equal rights and dignity to all". Outside of that and my family, I love animals (specially dogs) and my interests are in motorcycling, golf, and bridge.